Re: FW: Font-family specification from Benjamin C. W. Sittler on 1996-01-31 (www-style@w3.org from January 1996)

From: Benjamin C. W. Sittler <bsittler@mailhost.nmt.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:40:48 -0700 (MST)
To: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
Cc: www-style@w3.org
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960131153840.7389A-100000@yellow>

On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Hakon Lie wrote:

...
>     font: 12pt/14pt best in bold 
> 
> Here, it would be ambigous if 'bold' is a part of the font family name
> or a value to the 'font-weight' parameter. Unless better solutions are
> suggested, I'll add quoting of font family names to the next version
> of the specification.

Please do not mandate quoting for single-word font names containing no 
special characters. This would prevent the mechanism from becoming overly 
cumbersome for simple names (Times, Script, etc.)

Benjamin C. W. Sittler

Received on Wednesday, 31 January 1996 17:41:32 UTC